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When one works, it'll tell you all you need to know about the book, and at the same time pull you along and leave you wanting more.

"What was the worst thing you've ever done?"
-Peter Straub, Ghost Story

"It was Friday the thirteenth and yesterday's snowstorm lingered in the streets like a leftover curse"
-William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel

"It was a pleasure to burn."
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Not only will a good opening line set the mood for what's to come, sometimes it'll make it almost impossible not to keep reading.

Aric Davis understands this, and his novel, A Good and Useful Hurt, has a particularly striking opening line.

'Fuck art, this is war.'

And believe me, he means it.

Davis pulls you along a winding path filled with art, romance, and friendship. He will distract you with enough details about the fascinating world of tattoos to make you believe, on some level, that everything is fine, that those shadows in the corner are just shadows. Basically, he makes you believe that war isn't coming.

But it is.

A Good and Useful Hurt is an all or nothing book. There's very little I can tell you without giving too much away, but I'll do my best. Mike owns a tattoo shop and hires the young headstrong Deb to join his wily crew of misfits in Gran Rapids Michigan. Mike and Deb fall in love, and although they are both nursing some deep emotional wounds, the relationship blooms.

Deb performs some fairly extreme body modifications.

Mike tattoos select patrons using the ashes of their dead relatives.

Just another day at the office.

Of course, it's not long before we come face to face with a sociopathic serial killer and start communicating with the dead…  And that's just the start. Things get even more intense from there.

Aric Davis has done something wonderful. He's brought a new and unique perspective to the traditional ghost story, and it would be a shame to miss out.–John Rector

John Rector is the best-selling author of three suspense novels, The Grove, Already Gone, and The Cold Kiss.

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Erin Duffy graduated from Georgetown University in 2000 with a B.A. in English and went on to spend more than a decade working in fixed-income sales on Wall Street.

Here, the author gives the skinny on "Wall Street Dating 101."

It has come to my attention that there are a lot of girls out there who are struggling with the pitfalls of dating a Wall Street guy. No worries, ladies. Consider me your mole. Class is in session.

There are a few things you need to know if you want to have a relationship with a Wall Street guy. First and foremost, DON’T call him at the office eight times a day. It makes his coworkers think he’s whipped and opens him up to inhumane ridicule. Never, ever do this. Put it right up there on the list with running with scissors and playing in traffic. On the rare occasion that you are actually able to get your boyfriend on the phone during the day, don’t be offended if he hangs up on you mid-sentence. No, he’s not mad at you; simply put, he had another phone call that was more important than yours, (read: one that pays him). Poor phone habits are a byproduct of the job. The sooner you accept them, the better.

Next up: be prepared for a lot of alone time. When your boyfriend apologizes for missing your mother’s birthday on a Sunday because he has to go to a golf outing for work, he’s telling the truth. Sure, no one likes coming in second to a putting green, but you need to understand that mandatory sporting events are a part of the job description.

This lesson is a particularly hard one for girls to understand. You can’t be surprised if your boyfriend goes to every nice restaurant in the city during the week without you, and then on Friday wants to sit on the couch and order in pizza. I know it’s not fair. You have been waiting patiently all week for the work obligations to end, and now he’s too tired to put on pants? The short answer is, yes. As a male friend of mine so perfectly put it, “I leave everything on the field during the week. I’m not moving off my couch on a Friday for anything less than my apartment catching fire.

Lastly, Wall Street guys have multitasking down to an art form. If you are talking to your boyfriend and he’s simultaneously checking his I-pad, writing a text message and reading an email all the while assuring you he is listening to your every word, he probably is. Our brains have been reconditioned to absorb information from ten different sources at once. This should be good news. You aren’t being ignored nearly as much as you think you are.

If you find yourself dating a Wall Street guy, and remember these rules, you will be much better off. Believe me, he will love you all the more for it.

Class dismissed.

–Erin Duffy

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recent anti-competitive behavior. Barnes & Noble refused to sell securities through Amazon released its stores. But surely Amazon is now an editor, will be treated as any other. The essence of the gripe seems to be that Amazon “will continue to remove content on the market,” which seems to me to translate:. “Amazon are better than we can provide, the authors

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Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of two collections of poetry, a memoir, and two novels including the best-selling, The Paris Wife.

The first time a love story knocked me flat was when I read The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough. That was in high school, nearly thirty years ago, and it ruined me in the best sort of way. McCullough’s tale is set in the wilds of the Australian outback and chronicles, with epic anguish, the forbidden love between Meggie Cleary and Father Ralph. Although they can’t keep each other (hint: he’s a Catholic priest), their bond is undeniable—and good for several boxes of tissues. Don’t get me wrong. I like a happy ending as much as anyone, but when it comes to romance, I’m often more moved and more convinced by a healthy dose of heartbreak. When I was writing The Paris Wife, a big part of what drew me to Ernest and Hadley’s story was the way their connection is tested and challenged by sometimes overwhelming obstacles. I’m a card-carrying romantic, but in that box of valentines, I’ll always reach past the fluffy pink heart with scalloped lace edges for the one that’s pierced, broken. Real.

Here are my top ten favorite all-time literary love stories, some old, some new, some poignant, some absolutely jubilant—all guaranteed to pack a wallop on Valentine's Day. Happy reading!

Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Quiet, unassuming Anne Elliot and the dashing Captain Fredrick Wentworth have both watched the love of their lives slip away. Here, we see if they’ll weather the considerable risks to grab happiness when it comes around again. Even more than Pride and Prejudice, or any other number of Austen masterpieces, this novel kills me every time for its depiction of a mature and constant love that stands the test of time.

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
In setting the gold standard for Gothic Romance, Charlotte Brontë has also given us one of the most extraordinary heroines ever to grace the page. Jane is unearthly, intense, and painfully self-aware—she’s also a consummate survivor. As we follow her from her orphaned childhood through terrible obstacles and deprivations, she becomes utterly whole for us, a complicated thinking and feeling woman. Of course her love for the brooding, haunted Edward Rochester is complicated too—and entirely unforgettable.

The Time Traveler’s Wife (paperback only), by Audrey Niffenegger
Like Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, Henry De Tamble has come unstuck in time. Haphazardly swept through decades, and vulnerable in every way, Henry attaches himself to Clare and comes to chart his life through loving her. Forever left behind, Clare overrides the considerable challenges to link her life to Henry’s as well. The brilliant trick of this novel is that Niffenegger makes the high-concept and fantasy-based love story feel breathtakingly real, recognizable and even essential.

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
The only novel published by the other Brontë sister, Wuthering Heights is a dark treatise on all-consuming life-altering passion. Heathcliff and Catherine are devastatingly locked together in life and death, and although they aren’t likeable characters, we’re swept up by their raw and harrowing human drama.

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Essentially a current day comedy of manners, this utterly delightful novel follows the brusque and stodgy Major—such a fresh and unlikely troubadour!—in his complicated pursuit of love with Jasmina Ali, a Pakistani shopkeeper. Funny, wise and completely delicious!

Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Set in the Smoky Mountains in the final throes of the Civil War, Inman is a wounded confederate soldier who deserts his post and embarks on a journey of heroic proportion to reunite with his scrappy beloved, Ada, who is also tested beyond measure.

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
While others may swoon for Romeo and Juliet, I’ll take these seasoned lovers, long married. Lady Macbeth knows her husband profoundly. His weakness is clear, and she exploits it; he complies because he wants her approval and her heart. Their love is extreme and disastrous—but there’s a shocking truth in the depth of their understanding of one another.

The History of Love, Nicole Kraus
In this unbelievably beautiful novel, eighty-year-old Leo Gursky, a lonely eccentric, is fated to meet Alma Singer, a teenaged girl named for the love of Leo’s life. Full of wonderful plot turnings and synchronicities, Kraus’s story is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit, and the power of love unending.

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
The brilliant McEwan has outdone himself in this tender and wrenching depiction of a young couple on their wedding night. Set on the Dorset Coast of England in 1963, the story is also completely timeless in its meditation on personal restraint, sexual ignorance and all the other small but enormous things that keep us from saying what needs to be said, and reaching out to another in the moments that can change our lives forever. You’ll want to gobble up this spare and perfect novel in a few hours—and I highly recommend reading it just that way.

Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx
“I wish I knew how to quit you,” Ennis Del Mar tells Jack Twist in this powerful rendering of the impossible love between two men who meet as ranch hands in Wyoming’s stunning and unforgiving high country. Even if you’ve seen the gorgeous film adaptation by Ang Lee, you’ll want to read Proulx’s language first hand. The story is one of eight in her terrific collection, Close Range, and somehow manages to deliver, in just a handful of pages, one of the truest, wisest, most honest depictions of love I’ve ever encountered.

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For the shortest month of the year we’ve put together a great list of 100 Kindle Books for $ 3.99 or Less.

Here are some of our favorites we want you to know about:

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer, $ 3.99
No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into this collection of stories examining the climbing subculture you will begin to shiver. The various heroes, risk-takers, incompetents, and individualists captured here are more than colorful as Krakauer explores the addiction of risk and intense effort.

The Sweetest Thing by Barbara Freethy, $ 1.99
Freethy’s charming writing style and expert plotting perfectly explore what happens when matters of the heart become complicated for entrepreneur Alex Carrigan after he invites his eccentric grandfather and precocious 12-year-old daughter into his home and a beautiful redhead into his love life.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, $ 2.99
An influential classic of satire and dark humor by one of the best, Vonnegut’s God Bless You Mr. Rosewater presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome.

The Good Neighbor Cookbook: 125 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Surprise and Satisfy the New Moms, New Neighbors, and more by Suzanne Schlosberg, $ 2.99
Forget about the same old boring pasta salad or tuna casserole when you need to bring dinner to exhausted new parents, care for a friend recovering from surgery, or contribute to a business breakfast. Schlosberg and her coauthor Sara Quessenberry uniquely divide this excellent cookbook by occasion rather than food category.

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming, $ 2.99
Fleming’s page-turning debut follows the trials of Virginian Clare Ferguson, who has left her tough past as an army helicopter pilot to become an ordained priest in upstate New York. Things become chilling after a baby is left on her doorstep and a community-shattering murder investigation follows.

Be sure to visit our complete list of 100 Kindle Books for $ 3.99 or Less and browse through the other 95 gems we’ve chosen for February; from adventure anthology to science fiction, this month’s selection has something for all reading tastes and moods.

Note: Deals expire on the last day of each month. Individual books may have additional territory restrictions, and not all deals are available in all territories.

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strong for prose. , Strong female roles and charm of fame Wrede Wrede and intelligent sense of humor Lyra series is available immediately for download on the Kindle. Lyra is a magical world of four races, the differences in how they shared in constant conflict. Although each of the five books of the series – captured in crystal , The Raven Ring , Shadow Magic, Daughters of the witches, and Imach Thyssel Harp -. In Lyra’s world, they are independent and can be enjoyed in any order

After its initial release pressure won the books Wrede Lyra cult status and the ability to leave forever and analysis on the financial write full time. “I like fantasy,” said Patricia Wrede. “I do not think we should forget that the world is a wonderful place.” Hit play on the video below to learn more about the transition from author of finance to fiction writing to learn and explore the Wrede fascinating, imaginary worlds.

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